The Matter of Voice : : Sensual Soundings / / Karmen MacKendrick.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: MacKendrick, Karmen,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)

Philosophers for millennia have tried to silence the physical musicality of voice in favor of the purity of ideas without matter, souls without bodies. Nevertheless, voices resonate among bodies, among texts, and across denotation and sound; they are singular, as unique as fingerprints, but irreducibly collective too. They are material, somatic, and musical. But voices are also meaningful-they give body to concepts that cannot exist in abstractions, essential to sense yet in excess of it. They can be neither reduced to neurology nor silenced in abstraction. They complicate the logos of the beginning and emphasize the enfleshing of all words. Through explorations of theology and philosophy, pedagogy, translation, and semiotics, all interwoven with song, The Matter of Voice works toward reintegrating our thinking about both speaking and authorial voice as fleshy combinings of meaning and music.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- To the memory of Helen Tartar -- Contents -- Introduction: Hearing Voices -- 1. The Matter of Voice -- 2. Speaking to Learn to Listen -- 3. Thou Art Translated! -- 4. The Voice in the Mirror -- 5. Original Breath -- 6. The Meaning in the Music -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index